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One Hundred Years of “Zeno's Conscience”
In Trieste, the 'go-ahead' for the Svevian celebrations was given in December by the museum named after the great writer, with a themed edition of the annual 'Happy Birthday Svevo' event and an exhibition (now open until June) that illuminates the 'quintessence' of 'The Conscience of Zeno', starting from what was a somewhat bumpy start. Because the novel that was published in 1923 - at the author's expense - by the Cappelli publisher in Bologna was born, as explained by the director of the Svevian Museum Riccardo Cepach, "under the sign of paradox: it is one of the most innovative, profound, ironic, modern works that Italian literature produced in the first quarter of the twentieth century and...
Claudio Magris outlines the Svevo/Joyce relationship
Anticipating the contents of an episode dedicated to Trieste at the beginning of the twentieth century of the Rai5 program L'atalante che non c'è that will be broadcast in the spring, Claudio Magris presented in the columns of the Corriere della Sera of Sunday 16 January 2022 the relationship between Italo Svevo and James Joyce. The latter gave Ettore Schmitz lessons in English and the most important literary works of both did not immediately meet the...
In memory of Bruno Maier
A great scholar, and a man - according to all who knew and frequented him - cordial, affectionate, with an old-fashioned kindness. Twenty years after his death, the memory of Bruno Maier, a distinguished critic and historian of Italian literature, a recognized authority in the field of studies on Italo Svevo and Trieste literature, but also a profound and moving connoisseur of the cultural and literary panorama of his Istria, to which he dedicated a significant part of his essayistic activity, is still alive. It is to Bruno Maier, full professor of Italian literature and modern and contemporary literature at the University of Trieste, that we owe a still...
Some thoughts on “Zeno beats apartheid”
I would like to make some reflections on what Mauro Covacich wrote in la Lettura on June 7th in his interesting article “Zeno beats apartheid. The language of Italo Svevo against nationalism”. I live in Rome, but I am the daughter of exiles from Rovigno d'Istria and a national councilor of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the oldest and most important of the associations of exiles who abandoned the lands of the eastern Adriatic after the Second World War, lands with a very complex history. In 1382, Trieste was surrendered to Austria, which granted it the Free Port in 1719. The city had a notable economic development with an increase...
